Please don't vote for Donald Trump

 I request that you do not vote for Donald Trump.

Since he became president, he has demonstrated in many ways that he is not qualified to be president.

There are three main things that President Trump has done that stand out in my mind.

The first was after Mueller testified in congress about Russian attempts to influence the US 2016 elections.  On July 24, 2019, Mueller said "Over the course of my career, I’ve seen a number of challenges to our democracy. The Russian government’s effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious."  What did Trump do after this?  Did he talk to Mitch McConnell and tell him to have the senate figure out how to fix this?  Did Trump talk to the State Department, the CIA, NSA or FBI on how to fix Russian influence?  No, Trump called up the President of the Ukraine and told him to announce an investigation of Joe Biden.  Trump's response to Mueller's warning about foreign interference was to try and create more foreign interference.  (Note: Even if you say or can prove that Mueller never should have started investigating Trump's campaign, my point still stands, Trump has done very little (he did make EO 13848) about the well documented Russian interference in the 2016 election).

The second was the whole set of Trump comments on Slow Down Testing.  On Saturday, June 20th, 2020 he said: "When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people. You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down, please!'"  On June 23rd he said he doesn't kid and posted a related tweet.  One of the better ways to get out of this covid-19 problem is to test as much as possible so we find the cases and we can then isolate the people with covid-19 instead of having to isolate everyone.  So Trump suggested to slow down testing, and then repeated it multiple times over the next few days.  In other words, Trump could not figure out how stupid slowing down testing is despite having days to think about it. Trump should have been asking to speed up testing.

The third is honesty.  Trump lies. From the first day in office when he lied about the number of people attending his inauguration to saying that all of Portland is on fire and has been for decades, Trump lies. (I've been to Portland in the past few years, and the city was not burning then and while the riots have occasionally set fires, they are fairly limited, saying the whole city is ablaze was an outright lie.)

So, please do not vote for Trump.

References:

Mueller Testimony:
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/454481-read-muellers-opening-statement-about-russia-investigation

Mueller Report:
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume1.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume2.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_appendices.pdf

Whistleblower letter about July 25th phone call:
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf

EO 13848, Trump's September 12th, 2018 executive order on Foreign Interference:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/

Review of FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation:
https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf

Trump quips that he told aides to 'slow the testing down' for coronavirus:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/503758-trump-quips-that-he-told-aides-to-slow-the-testing-down-for-coronavirus

Trump: "I don't kid" on coronavirus testing:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/504060-trump-i-dont-kid-on-coronavirus-testing

Donald Trump, June 23, 2020: "Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!"
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275381670561095682


Trump on Inaugural Crowd Size:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315484-trump-defends-size-of-his-inaugural-crowd

Trump false claims that Portland is on fire and has been for decades:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/01/donald-trump/we-are-not-fire-authorities-dispute-trumps-false-c/

Trump claims the Portland on fire "or a city like Portland, where the entire city is ablaze all the time":
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-august-8-31-2020/

A more complete list of Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/reasons-why-donald-trump-is-unfit-to-be-president